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A HAMILTON. FRUIT PIGKERS SACK.

(Application filed. Jan. 8, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES i PATENT QFEICE.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON, OF ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.

FRUIT-PICKERS SACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,169, dated August 20, 1901.

Application filed January 8, 1901. Serial No. 42,557. (No model.)

To aIZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Alhambra, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in IBruit-Pickers Sacks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sacks used by fruitgatherers to hold the fruit while they are picking; and the object is to provide a cheap and simple fruit-holding sack whose contents can be emptied without its being removed from the wearer and without bruising the fruit. I accomplish this object by the sack described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my sack with the bottom closed. Fig. 2 is a fragmeny I .tary view of the lower portion of the same,

showing the bottom open. Fig. 3 is a view of the top frame of the sack. Fig. at is a view of the bottom frame of the sack and a part of the closing-cord.

In the top of my sack is affixed, preferably by sewing,-the top frame 1, as shown in Fig.

1, which provides a wide flaring mouth having the back wall 2 slightly curved to the shape of the wearer and extending above the front wall of the sack to prevent the fruit be ing thrown over the sack when the wearer is picking fruit and leaning forward. At each side in the top frame are eyes 3 for the reception of cords 4, which fasten shoulder-strap 5 to the sack. These cords maybe lengthened or shortened to adjust the size of the shoulder-strap to the wearer.

The bottom of the sack is provided with hinged frame 6, the front of which is provided with looking tongue 7, rotatable thereon, which in closing the bottom of the sack passes through aperture 8 in the back wall of the bottom and around under the back wire and I 1 to adapt it for use in picking heavy fruits, I i provide a ring'12 in the end of the lockingtongue and draw it up and fasten it in the snap-hook. By forming the end of the locking-tongue so that it could be fastened into the snap hook ring 12 could be omitted. When the desired quantity of fruit is in the sack, the ring is unfastened from the snap hook, and by means of the closing-cord the bottom is allowed to gradually open, and the fruit is deposited in the desired receptacle without bruising.

I am aware that it is not new to make A flexible bag or sack having a lower dischargeopening, a frame secured contiguous to the upper end of the bag or sack, and a stretcherframe seen red to the lower portion of the sack, said stretcher-frame being independent of and disconnected from the upper frame, or A bag or sack having a discharge-opening,

a closure for said opening, a stretcher-frame secured to the bag or sack contiguous to the discharge-opening, and means connected with said frame and with the closure for securing the latter across the discharge-opening, and I do not claim the same; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fruit-pickers sack, the combination of a sack having an open mouth with a frame adapted to hold said mouth open; and an open bottom having a hinged frame affixed to the edges of the walls of the bottom; a locking 8o tongue rotatably mounted on the front part of said bottom frame, adapted to pass over and then under the back part of said frame and lock the front and back together; and means to hold said tongue in its locked posi tion.

2. In a fruit-pickers sack, the combination of a sack having a mouth with the back wall extending above the front; a frame affixed to the edges of the walls forming said mouth, having eyes in the sides thereof; adjustable cords in said eyes affixed to a shoulder-strap;

a shoulder'strap; an open bottom having a hinged frame aflfiixed to the edges of the walls forming said bottom; a locking-tongue rota- 5 tably mounted on the front part of said frame, adapted to pass over and then under the back member of said frame and lock them together, and means to hold said tongue in its locked position.

3. In a fruit-pickers sack, having .an open mouth and an open bottom, a hinged frame adapted to be fastened to the walls forming the bottom; a locking-tongue on one of the members of said bottom frame adapted to two members together and thereby close the pass over and then under the othermember bottom of the sack, and means to hold said 15 and look them together; and means to hold tongue in its locked position, and to vary the said tongue in its locked position. holding capacity of said sack, substantially 5 4. In a fruit-piekers sack, having both the as described herein.

top vand bottom open, the combination of a In witness that I claim the foregoing I have frame adapted to be fastened to the Walls hereunto subscribed my name this 31st day 20 forming the mouth thereof, and keep said of December, 1900. mouth open; a hinged frame adapted to be fas- I 1o tened to the walls forming the bottom thereof; ALEXANDER HAMILTON a locking-tongue on one of the members of Witnesses: said bottom frame adapted to pass over and J. T. HALEY, then under the other member and to look the W. H. STEPHENS. 

